I hope things are looking brighter today and you get some better news. I know everyone is wishing your lovely husband all the best.
Sorry, I'm going to diverge from your thread.
If nurses are continually short staffed they can’t give proper care. When people are run ragged things get missed.
I can't say how much I disagree with this. It's just another excuse for people not doing their job properly. It takes more effort to take someone's crutches off them, walk across the ward and put them against the wall, than it does to leave them next to them. More effort to go and find a bedpan than have them next to the patient. Equal effort to put food and water next to them than at the foot of the bed. No effort to pull up bed sidebars while talking to the patient.
What is the point of paying thousands of pounds on patients' treatment if you then don't give them water. My friend's mother had early dementia and was in hospital. My friend had to go away for three days and when she got back her mother's tongue was black she was so dehydrated. She pointed it out and the doctor went mad at the staff. But it's all phooey. That doctor knows it's not just a one off. I can't be the unluckiest person in the world and it all only happens to my family and friends. It's over and over again. It happened to me after a back operation. I was told that after the operation it was important to drink and then they put the bed and water in such a position I couldn't reach. Then when I buzzed for them, they told me how busy they were. So if they'd just done a proper job the first time, they wouldn't have been so harried. They put water out every day. Surely they have learned where to put the water.
Please don't excuse it as an overlooking because they're tired. Of course anyone can make a mistake but I promise you , these aren't single incidents. It's systematic. It's poor ward management and care.
Listen, I don't mean this as a staff-bashing post. I have elderly parents and always all the staff (bar receptionists) in hospital are, on the whole, marvellous. The medics can do wonderful things and are really good-humoured and kind, and the porters and cleaners are cheerful and friendly. But, there is often a lack in basic care and common sense. Yes, hospitals need more money, they'll never have enough money. But when you excuse hospital workers and blame it all on the govt, you are giving it a pass to continue.